banks 'n' browser revisited: The sorry tale of HSBC Canada

[Stewart C. Russell]

A couple of years back, Evan Leibovitch put up a very useful page based 
on a discussion that started on this very list: 
<http://www.starnix.com/b-n-b.html>. Banks 'n' Browsers shows which 
banks worked with which browsers.

I didn't expect to flag a deletion in these enlightened days of web 
standards, but HSBC Canada's "new and improved" online banking now 
actively blocks Linux browsers. They upgraded it on the weekend, and 
even though they claim to support Netscape 7.1, it's blocking on the 
fact that it doesn't find Windows or Mac in the user-agent string.

The gory details: <http://scruss.com/blog/archives/000220.html>

Happy Earth Day, btw!

cheers,
  Stewart
(the wind turbine guy)
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